Stories Before Sept 2016

The Hollywood Reporter writes that CBS News Productions, the small division that has produced alternative programming for a slew of cable networks, is closing its doors. CBS News is shuttering the unit, with plans to redirect the bulk of its staff.

The division, which has employed more than a dozen producers, has made episodes of A&E's Biography, The Science Channel'sBrink, Survivor reunion specials and repackaged episodes of 60 Minutes for second run on Investigation Discovery.

CBS News Productions launched in the mid-1990s. Its offices are housed in the same building as 60 Minutes' in New York.